NH117: The vast kelp forests / Create spooky habitats / Blocking out the sun

Naviar Haiku submissions

Naviar Haiku challenge 101 - 150

A piece composed for the Naviar Haiku http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/

"Someone else's clock / During the long night / I count all the strikes"

This is a modular piece that uses two quantisers that are transposed throughout the piece such that they are never in the same key.  These drive two pairs of oscillators, one from each pair ring modulated with one from the other pair to give the bell like sounds. A lot of complex sequencing involving prime numbers and different length sequences ensures it never quite repeats.

Someone Else's Clock [naviarhaiku101 - Someone else's clock]

Through the ages
rising above the mountains
tonight's moon

Haiku by Inoue Shiro

http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/136732575773/naviarhaiku105-through-the-ages

The repeating sequence represents starlight (and the 'ages'), the brassy sound is the mountain, and the higher shimmering melodic line that appears gradually is the rising moon. 

Tonight's Moon [Naviarhaiku105 - Through the ages]

My attempt at some music for Naviar Haku 106: Sunrays.
I tried to represent the needles underfoot by the crispy noises, the dark mystery of the pine forest with the deep foreboding bass, offset by the brighter rays of sunlight, and then cut through by brighter shafts of light.

I am guessing the poem is saying that the pine trees look like snake gourds (which I hadn't heard of before - they are long and thin and hang down off their vines - I can imagine the trunks of pines would look like them in the bright sunshine?)

"Sunrays - 
Between the pines we see 
snake gourds"

Poem by Ichihara Tayo-Jo

Sunrays [Naviarhaiku106 - Sunrays]

This is my entry for this week's Naviar Haiku:

"The sleet falls / As if coming through the bottom / Of loneliness"
Haiku by Naito Joso

This is as usual 100% modular,  one take, straight into the  computer. The reverb is Strymon BigSky, and the Mix and Tone levels are being controlled by the modular via the expression pedal input. 

The Sleet Falls [Naviarhaiku107 - The Sleet Falls]

My entry for NaviarHaiku 114 - http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/

"Where do you come from? / Borders on Earth fall away / as we fly upwards" - poem by David Pulsford

This is a modular piece that uses multiple LFOs and envelopes both as modulation sources and as a method of triggering events (using a comparator) - meaning that the outcome is derived from simple rules but exhibits complex behaviour - much like the universe. And us. 

From Whence We Came (Naviarhaiku114 -where do you come from?)

Ambivalent Blue Sun Becoming Cold Shivers - [Naviarhaiku117 - The vast kelp forest]

https://hearthis.at/sevenism/the-vast-kelp-forests-naviarhaiku117/

feedback fx with tons of echo to give that spooky underwater feel
+converted to midi ran thru electronica chains in live8 for bubbly flow
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http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/141958661023/naviarhaiku117-the-vast-kelp-forests

Make music inspired by a haiku poem in seven days.

"The vast kelp forests  
Create spooky habitats
Blocking out the sun"

Poem by Haiku Lizard

Picture by Derek Keats
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hear

The Vast Kelp Forests (Naviarhaiku117)

Interested in the process of the creation of this track?
Just read about and listen to soundcloud.com/ahornberg/sets/ambient-workout-iii

Download

Naviarhaiku - The Vast Kelp Forests

edit 20.07.2016: mastered version of this track uploaded
edit 2.4.2016: the name of this track was changed from Deepness to Vastness, because reflects a mood of this soundscape much better.
Thanks to Paolo for this great hint.

An another contribution to the Naviar Haiku Group for week 117 on
The vast kelp forest

soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

Vastness [Naviarhaiku117 - The vast kelp forest]

My submission for this week's Naviar Haiku challenge. 
"The vast kelp forests / create spooky habitats / blocking out the sun" by Meg / Haiku Lizard.  
http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/141958661023/naviarhaiku117-the-vast-kelp-forests

The track uses three gradually shifting melodies with a lot of reverb (and no dry signal) as well as some echoes to give an underwater feel. The top end has been rolled off quite a bit to remove some of the 'light' , and the tone control on the reverb (Strymon Big Sky) has been severely cut to avoid the high frequencies.  The burbling noises are pink noise put through a resonant Wasp filter, which has the frequency swept by a random output, and is also occasionally pinged by a randomly triggered and very short envelope. This is panned randomy, and also each side of the stereo field is treated with different EQ and levels of reverb / echo. 

The Vast Kelp Forests (NaviarHaiku117 - the vast kelp forests)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
142 week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.com/

2016-09-22

One note of the shakuhachi (Naviar Haiku 142)

one note of the shakuhachi / resounds endlessly / piercing the winter clouds

all tonal sounds except the background pads and drums are created from a broken shakuhachi sample-CD, sampled in real time. 

sampled, mixed and mastered by www.stachy.dj

Naviarhaiku 142

stachy.dj

hofuku sochi 報復措置 - one note of the shakuhachi (or two?) [Naviarhaiku#142]

went literal: one held shakuhachi note, resonating at C1 - C6

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The haiku of the week was written by Sôen Nakagawa, a key figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from Japan to the Western world.

The shakuhachi is a Japanese end-blown flute that was originally introduced from China into Japan in the 8th century. If you’re curious to hear how it sounds, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7s-wXZWT5o

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku poem. To participate, visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

DEADLINE: 28th September

Poem by Sôen Nakagawa

Picture by Anne James

shakuhachi d  r   i    f     t (naviarhaiku142)

Written as companion to the following Haiku by Sôen Nakagawa:

One note of the Shakuhachi
resounds endlessly
piercing the winder clouds



For more information and to participate: http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Piercing Clouds

Piercing Clouds [NaviarHaiku142]

This will be my place for Naviar Haiku and Disquiet Junto entries.
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I make electronic ambient and drone music using modular synthesis to explore themes of nature, space, isolation, man/machine interaction, and the borders of the sleep/wake cycle.